Behaviour
You are being nudged
State-sponsored psychological manipulation is becoming ubiquitous
There is nothing wrong with rules
People can put down their phones for the duration of concert
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
Shock of the new
There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Are Labour the real racists?
Conservatives should stop trying to play the victim on identitarian grounds
AI and the great data robbery
Silicon Valley has stolen huge amounts of original material in order to “train” its GPT models
A festival for women — and men?
You cannot address the underrepresentation of women by including men
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
Having a bad Bey
If you’re going to jettison the essence of the song, why even bother?
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
